which is in manner and form as is hereafter expressed viz.' That the said Richbell shall extend from Cedar Tree Brook or Gravelly Brook, .south westerly fifty degrees to a certain mark'd Tree, lying above the now comon Road thirty and four chains in length, marked on the east with R and on the west with P, thence extending south sixty three degrees East by certain marked Trees ptixed' ending by a certain piece of Meadow at the Salt creek which runs up to Cedar Tree Brook or Gravelly Brook, extending from the first marked Trees Nor Nor West to Brunkes's River by certain Trees in the said Line marked upon the west with P. and upon the east with R. performed tiie twenty second day of May 1()77.

p' me Robert Ryder Surv.^"' The preceeding Surveyor above mentioned is mutually consented unto by the above mentioned Mr. John Richbell and Mr. John Pell in presence of us.

Thomas Gibbs Walter Webbs John Sharp Joseph Carpenter.- Thus was permanently settled the controversy regarding the West Neck, a settlement which finally determined the eastern boundary of the Manor of Pelham. As neither the Middle or Great Neck, nor the West Neck, formed any part of the Manor of Scarsdale, an account of them will not be given here, but will be found in the chapter on the Town of Mamaroneck as now erected.

In Richbell's Petition of the 24th of December 1631 to the Dutch Government for a ground-brief above given, he says the name of the " East Neck " is " Mamaranock Neck." A misreading by Mr. Bolton of the first of these two words in this document as recorded led to his stating in the first edition of his History of Westchester County issued in 1848, (vol. i. 282) that the "aboriginal name" of the East Neck was " Wanmainuck," and the error has continued in the second edition, (vol. i. 463).